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The ITUC, its Regional Organisation for the Americas TUCA and the National Union of Workers of Mexico (UNT) have taken their fight over the use of “employer protection contracts” to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

International and regional trade union groups have welcomed a commitment by Mexican Secretary for Labour and Social Welfare, Alfonso Navarrete Prida, to ratify ILO Convention 98 and promote genuine collective bargaining. This is a first step to end the use of ‘protection contracts’.

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has joined the international appeal for solidarity with the families of the missing students from the "Raúl Isidro Burgos" teacher training college in Ayotzinapa

José Enrique Morales Montaño, a member of the Workers’ Support Centre (CAT*), was abducted and tortured for 16 hours on 15 May in the city of Puebla. The ITUC has firmly condemned this intolerable act against the human rights defender.